Bill Pakalka is a partner in the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., joining the firm in 1973.  He focuses his litigation practice on antitrust, RICO, contracts and agreements, securities, general business, white collar crime, energy, and oil and gas matters. 

Bill was a law clerk from 1972 to 1973 for the Honorable Irving L. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  From 1981 to 1982, he served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas in the appeal of Ruiz v. Estelle, the longest civil rights trial in U.S. history.

• American Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas
• College of the State Bar of Texas
• Texas Bar Foundation, Life Fellow 
• Houston Bar Association
• Houston Bar Foundation, Life Fellow

• Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business: Antitrust (2007)
• International Who's Who of Commercial Litigators (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Best Lawyers in America, Antitrust Law and Litigation (2006, 2007)
• "Super Lawyer," Texas Monthly magazine (2004, 2005, 2006)

Bill has presented several programs and written several articles, which include:

• Co-author, "United States v. Arthur Andersen Reversed," Legal Update, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., May 31, 2005
• Co-author and presenter with Michael T. Shelby, "Deterring and Punishing Corporate Crime in 2004: The Federal Carrots and Sticks are Getting Bigger," Texas General Counsel Forum, Austin, Tx, October 2004
• Co-author with Julie Teperow, "Federal Antitrust Enforcers Release Major Study Compiling Empirical Data and Touting Competition, Not Regulation, For Best Results In Healthcare Marketplace,"   Health Care Antitrust Update, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., August 2004
• "Criminal Penalties for Antitrust Violations - The Price Just Went Up," Antitrust Update, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., June 22, 2004
• Co-author with Frank Blue, "Corporate Document Retention/Destruction Programs: Just a Lawyer's Problem? A Document Management Checklist," The Corporate Lawyer, July 2002
• Monthly "Litigation Tactics" column, International Commercial Litigation Magazine,Euromoney Publications, 1998 - 1999
• "Federal Question Jurisdiction: An Emerging Tool for Avoiding State-Court Litigation," United States Litigation Yearbook, 1998, International Commercial Litigation Magazine 52, Euromoney Publications, 1998
• Chapter 3, "Subject Matter Jurisdiction," Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial: Fifth Circuit Practice Guide, American Inns of Court/Lawyers Cooperative Publishers, 1996
• "The Many Loves of Irving L. Goldberg," Fifth Circuit Reporter 103, December 1994
• Author and presenter, "Antitrust Compliance Programs", Fifteenth Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, Dallas and Houston/Texas, 1993

• "American Antitrust and Trade Regulation Laws," Delegation of Government Trade Representatives, Ningbo/People's Republic of China, Houston/Texas, October 2000
• "American Antitrust and Trade Regulation Laws," Zhejiang Lawyers Association, People's Republic of China, Houston/Texas, December 1999
• "American Antitrust and Trade Regulation Laws," Delegation of Future Leaders of China, People's Republic of China, Houston/Texas, November 1999

1972 - J.D., with honors, The University of Texas School of Law
1969 - B.A., Government and History, The University of Texas at Austin

While attending law school, Bill was a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Delta Phi.  He was the Comments Editor of the Texas Law Review.  Bill was admitted to practice law in 1972, and is admitted to practice law in the all federal Districts in Texas, the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Fifth, Eighth and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. 

• Order of St. John, appointed by HRH Queen Elizabeth II in 2000
• St. Francis Episcopal Church, Chancellor